bush to enforce the borders?

sounds like bush is going to announce some aggressive border enforcement in his speech monday. even though it goes against his planned open-the-borders-so-we-can-have-cheap-labor policies, this is about the only thing he can do get back some of his paleo-conservative base. politics may trump the policies, but this enforcement will then bring to light some major contradictions/confusions. There are several reasons why "the system" wants immigrants. the immigrants will work for lower wages, under worse conditions, than US Citizens, so capital will have found a way around 100 years of the labor movement. Social Security and other elder costs won’t add up unless we find some more people to pay taxes.

in a nutshell, the fundamental assumption of both our economy and our thinking, that GNP should grow, is no longer politically viable. average americans may start realizing that kicking out the illegals would also require re-imagining how we should gauge our well-being. personally, i think borders are like individualism and private property: overcoming them may be a worthy goal, but we just aren't there yet. just like we aren't ready for opening our homes to the homeless we aren't ready to open our borders to the masses. maybe rather than being just xenophobia the anti illegal immigrant movement stems from our desire to take a modicum of control over our situation...